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Jewish writings from the period of Second Temple present a rich and potentially overwhelming variety of first-hand materials. George W. E. Nickelsburg and Michael E. Stone, experts on this formative period, have updated their classic sourcebook on Jewish beliefs and practices to take into account current thinking about the sources and to include new documents—including texts from Qumran not...

1 and 2 Maccabees describe how a “company of Hasideans (Gk: synagōgē Asidaiōn=Heb. qĕhal ḥasidim), mighty warriors of Israel” joined the revolt that was being led by Mattathias, the father of Judas Maccabeus, and how “the Hasideans” abandoned the revolt after the priesthood of Alcimus was established. These texts led scholars to seek other evidence for the existence of a Hasidean group in Palestine during the Hellenistic period. However, since the Hebrew ḥasid (“pious”)
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